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Download of the Week
Our regular feature of the best software and freeware downloads on the Web. Only great quality apps tested by our staff make the cut.
Download of the Week: Power Plan Assistant for Windows 7
- Microsoft has made energy efficiency a key design element of Windows 7. By default, the operating system is now smarter than previous releases about what devices to turn on and when. It also includes fairly detailed power management options and…
Download of the Week: Secunia PSI
- Keeping your operating system up to date is vital to having a malware-free computer. But even if you've got Windows fully patched, any one of your installed applications can be a potential point of entry for attackers should you forget…
Download of the Week: Recuva
- From the same guys who brought you CCleaner and Defraggler comes this really useful free tool that helps you restore lost files, whether you accidentally shift-deleted them a minute ago, or emptied through the recycling bin days before. Recuva is…
Download of the Week: Picasa, now with face tagging
- Roughly one year after rolling out facial recognition on its Picasa web-based photo service, Google is finally bringing the same functionality to the desktop. The latest version of this popular photo organizing software, Picasa 3.5, analyzes the faces of the…
Download of the Week: Gmail Notifier Plus for Windows 7
- Although Google already offers a downloadable application that alerts you whenever you have new Gmail messages, this handy third-party utility has been designed specifically with Windows 7 in mind; and as such is one of the few that currently take…
Download of the Week: Image Resizer
- With the average point a shoot camera these days boasting anywhere from 8 to 12 megapixels, image resolution and file sizes have gotten considerably bigger -- that's not to say more megapixels equals higher quality but let's leave that topic…
Download of the Week: GMABooster
- Usually when we think of gaming, and more specifically PC graphics, two industry giants come to mind: ATI and Nvidia. Curiously this market is dominated by Intel, though, thanks to its nearly-ubiquitous integrated graphics chips. Although it's a well known…
Download of the Week: Pidgin
- Those of you who’ve been using multi-protocol instant messaging clients for any length of time are probably already familiar with Pidgin. Nevertheless, this week the popular open source application received an important update worth mentioning here as it brings a…
Download of the Week: Yet Another Process Monitor
- All Windows versions since 3.0 have included a Task Manager utility to view running processes and (at least on the later versions) monitor a computer’s performance. Easily evoked by the Ctrl + Alt + Del keyboard combination, surely we’ve all…
Download of the Week: ImgBurn
- For as simple as this little tool can be it offers all the functionality you’d expect from a CD and DVD image recording app, and then some. ImgBurn was coded by the creator of DVD Decrypter after being forced to…
Download of the Week: DownThemAll!
- Many months ago we were discussing how relevant download managers are these days. Although for the most part I’ve found Firefox’s default download manager to be sufficient, recently I decided to give DownThemAll! a try; and was in for a…
Download of the Week: PortableApps Suite
- For years, USB Flash Drives have provided a convenient way of transferring files from one computer to another or carrying around data you need to access while on the go. Now, with 16GB sticks selling for $40 or even less,…
Download of the Week: SIW (System Information for Windows)
- SIW (System Information for Windows) is a free and full-featured tool for Windows which gathers detailed information about your system’s software, hardware and network, and presents it in a very comprehensible manner. It displays everything from the CPU clock and…
Download of the Week: Total Commander
- Windows Explorer is a good-enough solution for most people who need simple file management functionality on Windows. However, if you’re any sort of power user, you’ve probably bumped up against some of its limitations. There are a number of free…
Download of the Week: Trillian Astra
- It’s been a long time coming but Cerulean Studios has finally released – albeit in public beta form – the next major version of its multi-protocol instant messaging client, Trillian Astra. It supports the usual IM networks (Yahoo, Google, ICQ,…
Download of the Week: IObit Smart Defrag
- Disk defragmentation is one of the oldest and most effective ways of optimizing a computer’s performance – unless you are lucky enough to be using a solid-state drive, of course. There are a number of free and commercial tools available…
Download of the Week: Notepad++
- One of the best free advanced text editors, Notepad++, has undergone a slew of changes and version 5.4 is now available. If you’re unfamiliar with the program, it is an editor which supports an enormous spectrum of languages including C,…
Download of the Week: CutePDF Writer
- CutePDF Writer is a freeware application for Windows that performs one simple task and does it well. As its name suggest, it allows you to convert any printable document to a PDF (Portable Document Format) file by installing itself as…
Download of the Week: FeedReader
- With the overwhelming amount of information constantly flowing on the web every day, from online news to social networking sites, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to stay on top of all the things you are interested in. Fortunately, almost every site…
Download of the Week: Free disk usage analyzers
- If you’ve ever wondered what files and folders are eating up your disk space, you probably know it only takes a quick search or two to find plenty of applications that will tell you just that. Nevertheless I wanted to…
Download of the Week: HandBrake
- DVD ripping tools are usually a contentious topic seeing as they can be used in ways that violate copyright laws. However, there are a number of reasons why a user would want to transfer a legally owned DVD to their…
Download of the Week: Stardock Fences
- I have long abandoned the practice of placing shortcuts on my desktop in favor of a much cleaner look and feel using a keystroke launcher – specifically Launchy. For those who still prefer having their desktop stocked with all their…
Download of the Week: VLC media player
- When it comes to audio and – especially – video files, you’d be hard-pressed finding a media player that can beat the versatility and ease of use that VLC offers. This cross platform application can not only play almost any…
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